Two ݮƵ English Department members received Arts Excellence Awards at the Celebration of Arts ceremony held in the Hagey Hall Hub on April 24, 2019.
Congratulations to UݮƵ English’s newest PhD, Dr. Morteza Dehghani.On April 3, Morteza successfully defended “In Works of Hands or of the Wits of Men”: The Elegies of Wim Wenders, Laurie Anderson and Alexander Sokurov.
The Faculty of Arts at the University of ݮƵ invitesthe best and the brightest to join our doctoral and research masters' programs, with increased funding for qualified students commencing studies in 2018.
Congratulations to Alexi Orchard on receiving her PhD.
Congratulations to Dr. Shannon Lodoen, who on June 28 successfully defended her dissertation, "Subjectivity Under the Smartphone: A Rhetorical Examination of Digital Communications Technologies."
Congratulating the Class of 2024.
Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Dr. Elianne El-Amyouni! Elianne's dissertation is titled"Political Identity Expression in Palestinian Youth Subcultures".Her supervisor was Ken Hirschkop and readers were Kevin McGuirk, Heather Smyth and Jens Hanssen. The external examiner was Ted Swedenburg and theinternal/external examiner was Rowland Keshena Robinson. Her defense was chaired by Urs Hengartner.
This thesis examines contemporary transnational Palestinian hip-hop as part of a continuum ofpolitically informed and informing cultural expression, emphasizing the increasing heterogeneityof ideals and visions for Palestinian national liberation in response to a series of expulsions,defeats, and treatises. It traces the relationship between politics and the poem-song from the late18th century to the present, and there is a focus on the noticeable shifts in the geopoliticallandscape at pivotal moments throughout the 20th century—the 1948 Nakba, the 1967 Naksa, andmost importantly, the 1993 signing of the Oslo Accords—to reveal how the Palestinian situationhas become what it is today, and what role the poem-song has played and continues to play inthat evolution both within the historic homeland and without. Its focus is on contemporaryPalestinian hip-hop and delves into a semiotic analysis of specific songs written and performedby contemporary Palestinian rappers and hip-hop artists from around the world to delineate apossible shared vision of or affiliation with Palestine. What we find in our analysis is a mosaic ofopinions, identifications, and preoccupations that sometimes converge with one another anddemonstrate a continuity with pre-Oslo resistance culture, while at other times divergecompletely into their own new territory.
Congratulations to Dr.Lara El Mekkawi, who successfully defended her dissertation, "Hesitant Belonging: Understanding Generational Traumas of Forced Migration in Black and Palestinian Diaspora Contemporary Transnational Fiction."
Congratulations to our newest PhD graduate, Sally Beresford, on a successful PhD Defence! Her dissertation is titled “Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Detecting Community in their Public, Private, and Fictional Lives.” Dr. Carol Acton supervised, with committee members Drs. Kate Lawson and Victoria Lamont. The internal external was Dr. Jane Nicholas, and the external was Dr. Ann C. Martin.
Congratulations to Dr. Samuel Rowland, who successfully defended his defence onSeptember 22. His supervisor was Dr. Kevin McGuirk and the committee members were Dr. Ken Hirschkop and Dr. Victoria Lamont. Theinternal/external was Dr. Andrew Hunt, and the external examiner was Dr. Thomas Carmichael. The defense was chaired by Dr. Sanjay Nepal.